Change multiple FX at the same time

marcel-vossen wrote on 9/9/2018, 12:51 PM

Is it somehow possible to change the values of more than 1 TrackFX at the same time? Suppose I have 10 pieces of footage on the timeline, I can select them all and drop an FX on them, they all have the same effect then, suppose it’s a LUT, an example I was just working with. I decided that another LUT preset looks better after all, but I had to change them all one by one, it’s not working when I select the 10, open the LUT FX and change the preset, it just works for the one I click on....

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heg wrote on 9/9/2018, 9:56 PM

1) You can change one event, and then copy/ selectively paste event attributes... you can "Select events to end" or Ctrl Click the events you want to change, or select the events with the "Select Edit tool" (you can change from the normal edit tool with "D")

2) You can apply FX to track, instead to events: Click the "Track FX" button in the track header

 

Red Prince wrote on 9/9/2018, 10:25 PM

Is it somehow possible to change the values of more than 1 TrackFX at the same time?

I thought you could create a track group and add FX to the entire group, but I have just tried it and no matter what I did, it always only applied to one of the tracks, even though they were grouped.

So, I suspect there is no easy way. But maybe someone knows better.

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Marco. wrote on 9/10/2018, 3:23 AM

To me it sounds like what marcel-vossen asks for should be done like heg wrote: Using simple Track FX instead of Event FX.

If you want several tracks to be affected by one FX or one FX chain, parent-child compositing is the way to go, then apply the FX to the master (parent) track.

marcel-vossen wrote on 9/10/2018, 4:59 AM

To me it sounds like what marcel-vossen asks for should be done like heg wrote: Using simple Track FX instead of Event FX.

If you want several tracks to be affected by one FX or one FX chain, parent-child compositing is the way to go, then apply the FX to the master (parent) track.

Yeah that sounds like a logical workaround, but I'd have to put all the pieces of footage that need an adjustment in seperate tracks, so it makes the project look more 'messy'. In this case it's a wedding that is basically divided into separate 'parts of the wedding day'. Those parts (that consist out of rows of 20-30 bits of footage) all need different FX's depending on the time of day it's filmed and the locations. So it would make more sense if you could just select 20 events and adjust the FX's all at the same time if you decide that they need different settings. But I realize that's a complex thing to program because what would happen if you select 20 and only 10 have the FX you want to adjust. But it would be logical to implement that anyway, because Vegas could just change the settings on the Events that happen to have the FX added. If you don't want more than 1 event to change you can select only one, so it would be a great extra 'feature' to implement.

donde wrote on 9/10/2018, 7:30 PM

Interestingly, when I was doing beta testing for Cinema 4D, Sony (a client) insisted you should be able to select multiple events and apply (or change) them all in one shot... "...because this is the way people think it should work."

I've noticed some parts of Vegas do in fact work that way... others not. I guess that strategy got lost at some point. Still it would come in handy.

- Don